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Category:Microsoft Project Training Courses

Course Outline

Use our expert guidance to get the most from your project management software.

In this course, you will learn how Microsoft Project relates to project management, and you will examine the significant updates and visually enhanced features of Microsoft Project 2010. You will use Microsoft Project 2010 to work through the life cycle of a project, from creating a project and selecting the right resources to tracking project progress and creating reports.

You will learn first-hand how to use Microsoft Project 2010's intuitive tools to increase your productivity and better manage projects.

What You'll Learn

Quickly navigate Microsoft Project 2010

Use Project to develop realistic schedules

Use summary tasks to get accurate, high-level views of the project

"Level" resources within and among different projects

Use the team planner

Analyze and apply resource and project calendars correctly

Manual and auto scheduling

Integrate information from multiple projects

Correctly track the progress of effort, cost, and schedule

Get the most out the new ribbon and the new timeline

Who Needs to AttendProject managers and team leaders who are responsible for building detailed action plans and for using them to manage a project

Course Outline

1. IntroductionLearn how Project relates to the discipline of project management, and examine the significant new features for Project 2010. Learn how to navigate to the primary view available using the Ribbon. Choose views that display task, resource, or assignment information and much more.

2. A Quick and Easy Overview of Managing with ProjectExperience the steps required to create and use Project through the life cycle of a project: create a new project, prepare it for data entry, enter project tasks, sequence the tasks, define and assign resources, estimate task durations, baseline a project, and track project progress.

3. Setting Up a ProjectCreate a new project and establish the basic constraints that Project will use for its calculations.

4. Manual vs. Auto SchedulingLearn which Project functions are turned off for tasks using Manually Schedule mode and then change the task mode from manually schedule to auto schedule. Learn how to identify tasks that are in Manually Schedule mode by the task mode icon and shape on the Gantt chart, and get recommendations for the best use of this new feature.

5. Creating a Work Breakdown StructureCreate a useful work breakdown structure and enter it into Project. Use summary and subordinate tasks, understand milestones, develop WBS outlines, and assign completion criteria.

6. Identifying Task RelationshipsLearn the rules for establishing dependency links between tasks and be able to use Project to establish and display these dependencies.

7. Defining Resources within ProjectEnter resources and resource-related information into Project, including defining individual resources that will be used on the project and recording the costs of using each type of resource.

8. Making Work Package EstimatesMake estimates for tasks including assigning duration and choosing which tasks are effort driven. Explore task types, and learn how to use the Team Planner view.

9. Creating an Initial ScheduleUse critical path analysis to create a schedule, assign scheduling constraints, and know how to "crash" a schedule.

10. Create a Resource-Leveled ScheduleAdjust a project schedule to account for limited people and other resources, view the overall cost and schedule of a project, and identify over-allocated project resources. Explore ways to adjust tasks and assignments to remove over-allocation.

12. Formatting Output and Printing ReportsPrint a variety of standard and custom reports and be able to format the new timeline. Use the Gantt chart style features, customize the detailed reports, and use the visual reports in this tool.

Pre-Requisites

Certificates offered

21 PMI PDUs

Cancellation Policy

We require 16 calendar days notice to reschedule or cancel any registration. Failure to provide the required notification will result in 100% charge of the course. If a student does not attend a scheduled course without prior notification it will result in full forfeiture of the funds and no reschedule will be allowed. Within the required notification period, only student substitutions will be permitted.

Reschedules are permitted at anytime with 16 or more calendar days notice. Enrollments must be rescheduled within six months of the cancel date or funds on account will be forfeited.

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